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ORIGINAL QUESTION:



I am wanting to create a unit on our 49th state of Alaska for first grade/lower 
elementary grades.  Has anyone done the same in the past and willing to share their 
unit of  lessons and supporting documents and student resources?   I want to add to 
what I have in my own personal resources and ideas.   In early 2009, I taught 1st 
graders about the Arctic/North Pole. This year I want to expand and go in another 
direction. First grade social studies objective is centered on how a location, 
climate, and physical surroundings affect the wat people live---their food, 
clothing, shelter, transportation, and recreation.

Any  known, active  internet sites where there is a theme/unit on Alaska would be 
great.

Literature titles to use with 1st grade on this unit  ( Alaska people and the 
state)  are  also appreciated, especially fiction.

Thank you very much !

Robert Joyce, M.S. Ed, B.S.Ed
School Librarian/Library Media Specialist
Virginia--Pittsylvania County School
rajoyce59@verizon.net
Virginia --- Library Media NK-12 Post Graduate Professional
North Carolina---Media Coordinator (076),Media Supervisor (078)
South Carolina---Media Specialist (60), Media Supervisor  (59)




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update/addendum to a January HIT about our 49th State / Alaska



Alaska  LISTSERV posting SS 1.6 pt2update

 

 

Alaska Subscription [Magazine-Agent.com]

 

http://www.alaskamagazine.com-sub.info/director?page=44&umc=3279&gtse=YSM&CRTV=CLAS&mtrack=director-comsubinfo&redirect=no&OVRAW=alaska%20magazine&OVKEY=alaska%20magazine&OVMTC=standard&OVADID=6766029521&OVKWID=75791782521&OVCAMPGID=2761143521&OVADGRPID=3415866409&OVNDID=ND1#

 

 

Polar Animals Lapbook

http://www.homeschoolshare.com/polar_animals_lapbook.php

 

Glacier Bay   Lesson Plans & Teacher Guides (U.S. National Park Service)

http://www.nps.gov/glba/forteachers/lessonplansandteacherguides.htm

 

Alaska Wildlife Notebook Series Home Page - Alaska Department of Fish and Game

http://www.adfg.state.ak.us/pubs/notebook/notehome.php

 

Alaska Studies curriculum  Alaska History and Cultural Studies

http://www.akhistorycourse.org/

 

Alaska Geographic

http://www.alaskageographic.org/category/10/main-category

gRRRRReat site !

 

The State of Alaska - An Introduction to the Last Frontier from NETSTATE.COM

http://www.netstate.com/states/intro/ak_intro.htm

 

Alaska State Information Links Symbols Capital Constitution Flags Maps Song

http://www.netstate.com/states/links/ak_links.htm

 

ALASKA  State Climatologists American Association of

http://www.stateclimate.org/state.php?state_id=AK

 

Alaska Climate Research Center

http://climate.gi.alaska.edu/index.html

 

Glossary of Arctic Terms

http://library.thinkquest.org/3500/Glossary.html#GlossT

 

Arctic Animals  

http://library.thinkquest.org/3500/index.htm

 

http://library.thinkquest.org/3500/animals.htm

 

 

http://library.thinkquest.org/3500/Activities.html

 

Anchorage

Alaska Native Heritage Center 
http://www.alaskanative.net/en/main_nav/about_us/  and for the library 
lovers, the Loussac Library 
http://www.muni.org/departments/library/pages/default.aspx

 

AlaskaTransportation & Public Facilities, State of Alaska

http://www.dot.state.ak.us/

 

Alaska  Surfing the Net with Kids Newsletter:

http://www.surfnetkids.com/alaska.htm

 

Alaska REGIONS Transportation & Public Facilities, State of Alaska

http://www.dot.state.ak.us/regions-portal.shtml

 

Travel Alaska - Photo Gallery

http://www.travelalaska.com/Gallery/index.aspx

 

Travel Alaska - Travel Tips

http://www.travelalaska.com/Regions/TravelTips.aspx

 

Travel Alaska - Travel Within Alaska

http://www.travelalaska.com/Transportation/Around.aspx

 

Alaska Community Photo Library offers

http://www.commerce.state.ak.us/dca/photos/comm_list.cfm

 DCRA recognizes the uniqueness of life in Alaska's rural and urban communities.  
The Community Photo Library offers a glimpse into Alaska's communities and 
lifestyle by providing images of places, people, cultural events, public 
facilities, landscapes, and other dimensions of community life.

 

Browse Regions for Alaska Native Materials Alaska's Digital Archives : Movement to 
Statehood

http://vilda.alaska.edu/cdm4/statehood.php

 

State of Alaska

http://www.alaska.gov/

 

 

Alaska Studies Center -   Geography - Social Studies   - Alaskan educational 
materials

http://www.alaskastudiescenter.com/geography.html

 

Ecological Impacts of Climate Change

 http://dels.nas.edu/climatechange/ecological-impacts.shtml#present
reading lists:

http://www.reading.org/Resources/Booklists/TeachersChoices.aspx

http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/curr244.shtml

 

www.timeforkids.com

 

TIME For Kids, News Scoop Edition.   . Vol. 15, No. 11 . November 20, 2009

TEACHER'S GUIDE

VOL. 15, NO. 11

NOVEMBER 20, 2009

A Yup'ik Village in Alaska

 

Totem Pole Craft for Kids

http://www.dltk-kids.com/canada/mtotem.html

 

Inuit Family: A study of its history, beliefs, and images

http://www.cis.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/1991/2/91.02.07.x.html

 

Alaska & The Yukon Lesson Plans

http://www.questconnect.org/ak_lesson_plans.htm

 

Alaska Puzzles - Free Puzzles and Games About Alaska

http://puzzles.about.com/od/usstates/qt/AKPuzzles.htm

 

alaskatrekker.com  Alaska Weather Climate Temperatures

great site...  about weather/climate..

http://www.alaskatrekker.com/temperatures.htm

 

Iditarod: Race Across Alaska Home

http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/iditarod/index.htm

 

ALASKA  thebestkidsbooksite.com 

http://www.thebestkidsbooksite.com/thispartictopic.cfm?BookTopic=861

 

Alaska Wildlife Notebook Series Home Page - Alaska Department of Fish and Game

http://www.adfg.state.ak.us/pubs/notebook/notehome.php

 

http://www.traveltidingsalaska.com/alaska-weather.html

   -- this has the average temps for summer and winter for each region.  No map, 
but it is pretty straightforward.

 

 

 

http://www.travelalaska.com/Climate/Averages.aspx

    -- This has average highs and lows together, as well as average daylight hours. 
 It also has a clothing guide  

 

Alaska misc

climate.gi.alaska.edu/history/History.html

 Climate of Alaska by Martha Shulski and Gerd Wendler 

 

Alaska lesson plans  

http://www.archaeolink.com/alaska_lesson_plans.htm 

 

Alaska geography geographic information

http://www.archaeolink.com/alaska_geography.htm

 

Historic Alaska alaska history

http://www.archaeolink.com/alaska_history_historical_alaska.htm

 

Alaska social studies

http://www.archaeolink.com/alaska_social_studies.htm

 

IditarodThe Official Site of the Iditarod®

http://www.iditarod.com/

 http://www.travelalaska.com/Regions/TipsDetail.aspx?TipID=93

 

Iditarod curr

http://iditarod.com/pdfs/teacher/IditarodReadyStormReady.pdf

 

Alaska Lands Sequence and Connections Teacher's Guide

http://www.akhistorycourse.org/articles/article.php?artID=447

 http://www.ankn.uaf.edu/publications/

 http://www.institutenorth.org/servlet/content/geography_curriculum.html

 

Teachers' guides for Alaska - A Land in Motion (upper elementary level) and Alaska 
in Maps (high school level) can be purchased for $12 each. The teachers' guides are 
photocopied and shrink-wrapped. 

 Katie Kennedy

University of Alaska Geography Program

School of Natural Resources and Agricultural Sciences

PO Box 755840

Fairbanks, AK 99775-5840

U.S.A.

Tel:  907.474.7494

Fax: 907.474.7484

Email: katie.kennedy@alaska.edu

  Partnow, Patricia. Teacher,Äôs Guide to Alaska: A Land In Motion. Fairbanks, 

AK: University of Alaska, 1995. 

Partnow, Patricia H. Teacher's Guide for Alaska in Maps: A Thematic Atlas. 

Fairbanks, AK: University of Alaska, 1998. 

Wood, Denis. The Power of Maps. London: The Guilford Press, 1992. 

The USGS publishes a variety of informative teaching packets, fact sheets, posters, 
booklets, leaflets, and brochures about cartography, geography, and related 
sciences. These publications can be obtained from any Earth Science Information 
Center (ESIC). For more information, call 1-888-ASK-USGS (275-8747). call 
1-888-ASK-USGS (275-8747). 

---------------------------------------------------------------

Geologic Information:

usgs.gov/state/state.asp?State=AK

http://www.usgs.gov/state/state.asp?State=AK

 

Book suggestion: Recess at 20 Below.   (How children deal with the frigid temps in 
Alaska, yet still go out for recess. genre: nonfiction)

 

  use the Iditarod  to teach map skills in the library media center.  Maybe you 
could tie it in someway (location, climate, physical surroundings of the area 
through which the race goes?) 

 

Trackstar list of resources that some other teacher has created?  Some of the older 
ones will have links that are out of date, but many are VERY good!    
http://trackstar.4teachers.org/trackstar/;jsessionid=DB9C417AA257F05298E543DFBE292080
 

 

 

 

 

 

I have a volunteer assign every class and group of people (custodians, office 
staff, cafeteria staff, etc.) a musher.  I then send out all musher assignments 
ahead of time.  The week before the Iditarod, as classes come to the library, I 
show them their musher and talk about safe websites and how they should always get 
their parents permission before going on the Internet.  I bring in about how they 
can follow a current event on the Internet.  We read Balto, a non-fiction book, and 
then several fiction books about Alaska throughout the month.  I also bring the 
atlas into this unit.  I have a great map that is to scale and shows exactly where 
Alaska is in relation to South Carolina.  It also shows the true size of Alaska in 
comparison to the rest of the states.  The class or group with the winning mushers 
win Klondike bars for everyone.  I celebrate with them along with the principal and 
assistant principal.  The class with the musher who finishes last without quitting 
gets the Red Latern award and some form of red treat -- strawberry bars, twisters, 
red pencils.

 

You may want to check out author, Shelley Gill.
Alaska's Three Bears by Shelley Gill might work although it isn't
people-centered.
http://www.shelleygill.com/

 

"Nantik the Wolf" pup is good for 1st grade, by Jean Craghead George--who also 
wrote "Julie of the Wolves" for 4th-6th grade. Both are good stories about Alaskan 
Eskimo people.

 

Wind-Wild Dog by Barbara Joose.






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